U.S. Approves New Sanctions on Iran
U.S. Congress passes new package of sanctions punishing banks and insurance companies that help Tehran.
Elad was born in Haifa, Israel, and currently resides in Canada.
U.S. Congress passes new package of sanctions punishing banks and insurance companies that help Tehran.

A visit to Auschwitz by an advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has sparked outrage among Hamas terrorists.

A live broadcast on Army Radio from Susya, near Hevron, went ahead as scheduled despite attempts by leftist anarchists to stop it.

Israeli tennis players Andy Ram and Yoni Erlich beat world champion Roger Federer and his partner in London, advance to quarterfinals.

News report says rebels fighting to depose Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad have acquired a small supply of surface-to-air missiles.

UN General Assembly to meet on Syria, vote on a resolution that condemns the Security Council for failing to take action against Damascus.

Delhi Police indict Indian journalist of conspiring with foreign elements in the terror attack on an Israeli diplomat's car.

Finance Minister Steinitz and PA Prime Minister Fayyad agree on arrangements regarding taxation and the transfer of goods.

President Barack Obama announces new U.S. sanctions against foreign banks that help Iran sell its oil.

Egypt denies reports that President Mohammed Morsi sent a letter to Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.

Prime Minister Netanyahu in interviews to major television channels: Iran is making atomic bombs to destroy us. I won't let that happen.

Two Israelis lightly wounded after a vehicle was attacked by Arabs near the Yitzhar junction in Samaria.

August Kowalczyk, the last remaining survivor from a group of prisoners who escaped Auschwitz in 1942, passes away at 90.

U.S. lawmakers reach a compromise on new sanctions that will add additional pressure on countries that purchase Iranian oil.

PA inspectors have confiscated and destroyed 148.2 kg of products that were made in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

The Justice and Development Organization for Human Rights in Egypt calls to release Gaza from under the rule of Hamas.

Terrorists fired five mortar shells at an IDF force operating near central Gaza on Monday. No one was hurt.

One yeshiva student needed to be hospitalized after Arabs attacked a group of students and hit them with belts over Shabbat.

Romney says he supports a two-state solution with the starting point on borders to be “decided by the parties involved.”

Austria's Justice Minister says doctors are legally allowed to perform circumcisions, after a local governor instructs to stop them.

PA PM Salam Fayyad says "the Palestinian cause" has never been more marginalized, attacks Israel for building in Judea and Samaria.

Syria’s Foreign Minister and his Iranian counterpart accuse Israel of plotting to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Assad.

In what appears to be another expression of the strengthening of Islam in Egypt, a new initiative encourages “sharia tourism.”

Shas chairman Eli Yishai says his party's ministers will oppose the economic measures to be presented for approval on Monday.

Iran’s controversial nuclear program at the center of a meeting between Mitt Romney and President Shimon Peres.

Government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declares victory in Damascus and pounds rebels in Aleppo.

Educator and author Rabbi Shalom Gold encourages participants in Tisha B'Av march to fight for the Temple Mount.

Slovakia's Jewish community calls for Laszlo Csatary, who was detained in Hungary, to stand trial on Slovak soil.

An Israeli woman suffered physical injuries after terrorists fired four rockets on the city of Sderot during Shabbat.

Karnit Goldwasser, widow of Ehud who was kidnapped and murdered by Hizbullah terrorists, attacks the terror group.

The identity of the terrorist who blew himself up near a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria remains a mystery.

The Hizbullah terror group affirms its allegiance to Syria, offers to place itself at President Bashar Assad’s disposal.

NYC Councilman Dan Halloran, who is running for Congress, meets representatives from the World Committee for the Land of Israel.

Brigadier General Manaf Tlas, one of the most senior defectors from Assad's rule, says he will try to help unite Syria's opposition.

Gaza’s Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh meets Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Visit signals a shift in Cairo's stance toward Hamas.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will meet Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi and also stop for a visit in Israel.

U.S. says it is concerned that Assad's forces are planning a massacre in Aleppo, but rules out military intervention in the conflict.

Pentagon, Lockheed Martin agree to enhance electronic warfare equipment on the F-35 jet and integrate Israeli-unique systems.

MK Hanin Zoabi: Israel trying to hide the murders of Arabs it committed; Bulgaria attack because of the "occupation."

Israel’s Olympic team responds to the BBC’s assertion that Jerusalem is not Israel’s capital in a special video.
